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Title: Six Dead In Missouri City Hall Shooting; Two police officers and three city officials including the Mayor...
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URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0743157520080208
Published: Feb 8, 2008
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2008-02-08 00:30:55 by Brian S
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KIRKWOOD, Missouri (Reuters) - A gunman killed two police officers and three city officials on Thursday night when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St. Louis, police said. The gunman, who was later shot dead by police, killed one police officer in the parking lot outside City Hall in Kirkwood and killed another inside the building. He rushed into the council meeting and began shooting people, including council officials and Mayor Mike Swoboda, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was in critical condition, police said. "He shot three other people who were attending the council meeting. They also are deceased," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper quoted Officer Tracy Panus as saying. Two of the dead were council members and the other was an engineer, police said. Witnesses said the gunman was a middle-aged local contractor who had feuded with the city council in the past and had twice been arrested for disrupting meetings in 2006. Kirkwood is an upscale suburb around 15 miles southwest of St Louis.
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#12. To: _______, Brian S, IndieTx (#6)
Tyranny is generally felt locally, first. yep, that was my first thought. notice he was a contractor who had feuded with the city council in the past. i know lots of folks who have been tyrannized by these bureaucrats with private property being stolen from them and/or their businesses being destroyed. just wait until the TTC begins. i'm betting we're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing.
The only solution to this mess is to dig a hole big enough to nudge them all in and cover quickly
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy Take heed all ye fascist StateInc thugs. Your time is just about up. Prepare for the rope..or worse.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Actually, I think the aware people of the country are so tired of being ignored by their own friends and abused by these petty sons and daughters of bitches, that this may just be the beginning of many tears. America is on edge and can't see a solution in the near future.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
When my friends in the glorious State of Texas call for support to defend their properties against the NAU-TX Trans Corridor eminent domainers, I will eagerly come running. That understatement is indeed no exaggeration.
-- John F. Kennedy THE 2008 quote of the Year.
Didn't hurt his aim ... 7 shot 5 dead, one in critical condition ... I'd say he was mad as hell, not depressed. However, I wouldn't be shocked if he were on some anti-depressant medication.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
FUCK'em. Don't even let them see it coming. Hear it? Maybe.
"ALL" politics is local. Maybe he's sending a grass roots message to his fellow citizens that are weary of electing people to represent them as public servants only to have those elected become public masters that eventually decide they don't even want to hear a complaint. Then this ignorant federal Judge wants to equivocate about the meaning of public forum and whether it can be restricted ... blah, blah, blah ... I do agree there are much better targets out there, and many of them. Someday they'll be using "FREE SPEECH ZONES" as temporary morgues for the political deaf mutes instituting them.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
I'm saving myself.
I just looked at the mayor and council, and they appear to be a bunch of Republicans. The town has an ordinance to regulate how long they have to dispose of a newborn litter of kittens so as not to exceed the three-cat rule. As with many small, corporate governments they are probably a pain in the ass. I see the mayor was elected in 1976, took an 8 year break between 84 and 92, and has served since. Of course the news report is slanted, but if the shooter was a disruptive, childish, pain in the ass who wouldn't take no for an answer and wouldn't allow the council to conduct business when he wished to dominate the agenda, then I would have had little sympathy for him. He could have done what we did when we found the Newport, DE town govt unsatisfactory-move out of town and let the rest of the residents have the govt they deserve. I take no pleasure in this senseless act. Whatever the grievance it couldn't possibly warrant this violence.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
Some have become officially unelected ... a voter with an accurate weapon insures his vote gets counted !
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
Do you think it's simply a matter of the local activities ? Are we to forget WACO and RUBY RIDGE ? Do government organs get a special waiver (immunity) from their deeds ? When it comes right down to it, WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS CATCHING UP TO DO !!! It looks to me that many politicians aren't able to cope with the inherent power of their office in a respectable manner. When a citizen that might get tongue twisted or may stutter when speaking before a large audience is cut-off, asked to leave, laughed at or ignored, where is the redress ? I've noticed that many small towns are now implementing "ordinances" that appear to be straight out of Agenda 21, and contrary to the way things had normally been. The more intrusive the governing authorities become on all levels ... the more violence we will see. Cameras, check-points, bio-metrics, finger scanning the "kids", forced vaccinations, strip searches at the mall, dna samples taken at routine traffic stops ... gimme a break, this revolution is 50 years late.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
Almost everyone of these spree killers are on/were some type of psychotropic.
Mark If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
Agreed, but let's look a little closer. Why were they on them ? ... They were depressed. Why were they depressed ? ... Because life in the U.S. is becoming depressing to many. I think all psychotropics should be banned. However, I also think there are extenuating circumstances that lead to the easy access and availability to them.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
You mean think local, act global?
www.stltoday.com Gunman opens fire in Kirkwood "...Sportscaster Doug Vaughn of Channel 4 told that station that he went to Kirkwood High School with Thornton and saw him through the years. He said Thornton’s behavior changed after police cracked down on his parking of vehicles for his construction company outside his home in Meacham Park. He felt harassed, Vaughn said. "He could not have been a nicer guy to those who knew them but I think this problem with the city drove him completely crazy," Vaughn said in the TV interview..." On the other thread are some comments about how he got pushed to this place of upset.
I lived in St. Louis for many years and have been through Kirkwood many, many times and have shopped there often. It's a very nice suburb. The actor Scott Bakula is from there. There have been problems for several years with the city wanting to tear down stuff and expand. It's utterly unnecessary and would destroy the downtown. I suspect this had something to do with the shootings.
If you do not know who you are, you are maimed.- Jimmy Cantrell
I looked up the website and their municipal codes, and found the below: Sec. 449;1. Cruelty to animals. No person shall overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, ill-treat, torture, torment or unnecessarily or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate or kill, or cause or procure to be over-driven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, ill-treated, tortured, tormented or unnecessarily or cruelly beaten, or needlessly mutilated or killed, any dumb animal. (Gen. Ords. 1959, § 52.35) That sentence illustrates why I hate the way laws are written. It's like they just kept adding words to existing ordinances over time to end up with such confused trash. The subject of the sentence doesn't appear until the last two words! The "three cat" rule seems to be ubiquitous. Where I live in Michigan they've got a three cat per domicile rule that I haven't figured out yet. I think it's in response to the "crazy cat lady" but I wonder who decided that three is the maximum amount. And there are other laws that cover the crazy cat lady that could be used, rather than arbitrarily setting limits. I suppose that cat fosterers must get some kind of license. One of the people we adopted two cats from had nine.
Rivers of blood were spilled out over land that, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have worried his head over." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
The shooter, Charles Thorton.
If you do not know who you are, you are maimed.- Jimmy Cantrell
He looks like a regular guy. I've seen arrogant city councils. They can be infuriating and when they mess with your reputation and your livlihood with no redress, it can easily push people to the point of desperation and finally, retribution.
Screw government on all levels. After all they delight in screwing us.
I doubt it. What did the docile Americans do after JFK's brains were blown out? He was trying to implement the gradual dissolution of the private central bank called the Fed (which our founders warned us against), to break the CIA "into a thousand pieces" and also, for good measure, to withdraw from the jungle hellhole called Vietnam. He was rewarded for his courage in a most violent manner and schoolchildren in the city where he was murdered cheered when it was announced over the PA system.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
I can't even entertain that possibility.
Well, I certainly agree in principle. But, my reading of the article left me with the impression that this disgruntled contractor was "settling the score" for perceived wrongs at the local level. His theatrics and sophomoric insults directed toward the mayor, and sitting down on the floor after his alloted time had elapsed and forcing the police to remove him just reminds me of the grumpy, childish, "I want what I want when I want it" types that I've seen at town meetings here. If they had a legit complaint the majority of the council would more often than not agree with them. But, some folks channel their frustrations about the evil feds, the NWO, The Rockefellers, etc., toward niddly shit town govt people, and as often as not those who complain incessantly are simply bullying folks because they can, all the while thinking of themselves as local heroes instead of the disruptive, anti social,, arrested development buttheads that they are. I don't share the view that a city meter maid or building inspector be shot with a sniper rifle to even the score for what Lon Horiuchi did at Ruby Ridge. To advocate such would be to forfeit the high moral ground and simply reduce one's self to a mutual combatant in a battle of competing evils.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
I can't even entertain that possibility. It's true. I can't tell you the 'anti-Kennedy' sentiments that many kids got from their parents at the time, so yes, there were some who cheered.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution No person shall overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, ill-treat, torture, torment or unnecessarily or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate or kill, or cause or procure to be over-driven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, ill-treated, tortured, tormented or unnecessarily or cruelly beaten, or needlessly mutilated or killed, any dumb animal. (Gen. Ords. 1959, § 52.35) That sentence illustrates why I hate the way laws are written. It's like they just kept adding words to existing ordinances over time to end up with such confused trash. The subject of the sentence doesn't appear until the last two words! The "three cat" rule seems to be ubiquitous. Where I live in Michigan they've got a three cat per domicile rule that I haven't figured out yet. I think it's in response to the "crazy cat lady" but I wonder who decided that three is the maximum amount. And there are other laws that cover the crazy cat lady that could be used, rather than arbitrarily setting limits. I suppose that cat fosterers must get some kind of license. One of the people we adopted two cats from had nine. The first ordinance seems to be a relic from a bygone era, back when it was deemed necessary to regulate by ordinance which had the right of way if a horse and a cow reached the crossroads at the same time. I suspect the three-cat rule was settled by folks who know how much cat litter in a communal cat box is too much! (probably wimmen, heh heh) Yeah, we have some "kat experts" and some "kat haters" here. One woman council member pushed through a leash law aimed at cats, and I brutalized her in my newspaper column at the time. I called it "the alligator leash law" because it didn't mention cats and supposedly applied to all animals kept in town, and it proved so embarrassing (I did my part) that they eventually repealed it. (Those who've ever tried to walk a cat understand) My solution to katz peeing on folks' tomato plants was considerably bolder-I recommended using super quiet CB caps in a .22 rifle and bagging the carcasses up and tossing them where they'd never be found. The sheer horror my "solution" caused cat lovers forced them to accept the point I was making-"If you really love Fluffy then you'll keep its furry little ass inside."
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
Geez, I must be living in a fukking bubble then.
To advocate such would be to forfeit the high moral ground and simply reduce one's self to a mutual combatant in a battle of competing evils. You are correct. It would be wrong to kill someone just because they happen to work for some level of government. Lon Horiuchi is the murderer who should be punished for what he did at Ruby Ridge. Instead they promoted the murdering bastard. But he WILL pay for his crimes, he can be sure of that. If not in this life then in the next one.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I wonder what sort of construction vehicles pinhead maximus was dying to be ticketed 150 times over for parking in his neighborhood.
Don't worry, you're not alone. The only other person in the world who can't recall exactly where they were and what they were doing on that day is Poppy Bush.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution Local controll. That is what it is all about. The People do not have controll locally, nothing else matters, and that includes control of DC. When the People FINALLY get tired of corruption and sweet heart deals for the likes of Tyson and Wal Mart, and, start doing something about it, then, and only then, will things begin to change.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
Here in Texas, the Austin area more specifically, the people have been protesting the introduction of toll roads and the Trans-Texas Corridor. They are politely protesting at every opportunity and in large numbers. Their protests are acknowledged by the politicos and brushed off. The implementation appears to just keep moving forward even when the authorities say that it won't. City planners and others in the planning community are making deals without the public's awareness and sometimes making deals that the public will not tolerate. The institution of cameras at every corner, the taking of dna during routine traffic stops etc., are dangerous intrusions into our privacy in order to assist policing agencies that are too lazy or inept to do professional investigative work as has sufficed in the past. Killing innocent people has never set well with me personally. However, when the system that has been created to protect and serve the public turns against the creators ... outrageous acts will happen and may serve a positive purpose.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
To advocate such would be to forfeit the high moral ground and simply reduce one's self to a mutual combatant in a battle of competing evils. That's pretty sage wisdom there HD. For local boobs wallowing in power trips, there's plenty of petty BS of theirs that merely needs to be brought to light to get the locals to give them the boot...
Government blows and that which governs least blows least...
To advocate such would be to forfeit the high moral ground and simply reduce one's self to a mutual combatant in a battle of competing evils. You are correct. It would be wrong to kill someone just because they happen to work for some level of government. Lon Horiuchi is the murderer who should be punished for what he did at Ruby Ridge. Instead they promoted the murdering bastard. But he WILL pay for his crimes, he can be sure of that. If not in this life then in the next one. Horiuchi is the esteemed guest of honor at law enforcement and govt gun goon dinners and seminars. You'd think he was a bloody combat survivor like Audie Murphy rather than the most famous gallery shooter in the govt's stable of willing assassins of unarmed women who are "threats to the International Bankers' Way!" The irony is Horiuchi was aiming to mortally wound Kevin Harris but killed Vicki Weaver as she held a "supremist's" baby. (collateral damage at worst) And for this marksmanship, while acting under now-disgraced rules of engagement (which should have exposed the FBI agents to criminal prosecution under Idaho law) he is given awards and kisses on both cheeks. Horiuchi requires no psychological counseling because those he shot were only white cultists and sworn adversaries of the govt that gives minorities state of the art weapons and licenses to kill any white resister in general, and especially those who don't love him. The 9th circuit has confirmed the unwritten principle that no federal agent acting "in good faith" ("I was just following orders!"-didn't fly at Nuremberg but that was then and this is now) can commit murder under state laws no matter who he or she murders. This was expanded to include Blackwater contractors as they roamed the flood-stricken City Of New Orleans looking for moving targets. They were sent in with M4s and MP5s instead of insulin, oxygen, drinking water or bandages. Now, why was that? Sadly, America stamped her approval on the systematic killing of poor blacks when we sat on our asses and did nothing as the govt trumpeted these heinous acts. Cuba offered 100 doctors and Bush declined and we did nothing. (Bush was confident that poor blacks would rather be dead than have to say "Thank You" to "The Beard". In any event Bush wasn't about to say it, so they were doomed from the start) WAL MART sent a tractor trailer loaded with bottled water and it was declined and we did nothing. FLA sportsmen towed their john boats and air boats all the way to Louisiana boat ramps and were not allowed to launch to rescue survivors and still America did nothing. It should come as no surprise if the world fails to rally in support of stricken Americans should natural or planned disaster befall us.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
The implementation appears to just keep moving forward even when the authorities say that it won't. City planners and others in the planning community are making deals without the public's awareness and sometimes making deals that the public will not tolerate. The institution of cameras at every corner, the taking of dna during routine traffic stops etc., are dangerous intrusions into our privacy in order to assist policing agencies that are too lazy or inept to do professional investigative work as has sufficed in the past. Killing innocent people has never set well with me personally. However, when the system that has been created to protect and serve the public turns against the creators ... outrageous acts will happen and may serve a positive purpose. I understand where this is leading. I just don't want to lose my soul by blithely accepting the deaths of innocents as "collateral damage" the way our evil enemy does. If we simply inversely mirror their evil then what right do we have to victory that they don't also have? I fear that without moral righteousness on our side we will lose more than our country.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
Thank you. More often than not the "conspiracy of the mediocre" will combine against those who try to unseat entrenched local officials. They won't elect worthy people but they'll resist me with all they have if I try to remove the petty despots who walk into office unopposed. The only thing left is to move out into the county and beyond the reach of tiny municipal, corporate tyrants. That's what I did, and I'm better off for having done so.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
Into each life some rain...... Anyway.....just a thought......if the dude was white he'd already have been labeled a radical-right militia member living in a double-wide trailer, bedecked with a confederate flag. So we lucked out in that respect.
Yes, you are correct. The government has gotten by with far too much. Gordon Kahl, Ruby Ridge, Waco, the disaster in New Orleans and the disaster that is Bush (and Clinton). This country is getting close to, if not already on, its last trip around the bowl.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Right. And, blacks are rarely identified as patriots who resist the NWO. Their leaders would have the world believe that all American blacks speak with one voice, hence the ridiculing of "black Republicans" in comedy skits and movies. Any black who doesn't worship the state and the memory of "Father Abraham" is fair game. For instance, former NAACP prez Kweisi Mfume got lots of air time, while CORE founder and 2nd amendment supporter-welfare opponent Roy Innis remained mostly invisible to the public. So, it's doubtful that this spree killer will be a poster boy for having struck a blow for freedom. He probably just wanted to kill some white folks, starting with those who told him "NO" in the past.
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
We have assented by our silence. Oh, sure we've written millions of words in protest, but, now our reps turn off their incoming e mail when we object to whatever they're ramming into us, so, words mean damn little except to some of the 1/3rd who are up for re-election, and only then to those who aren't rock solid in their districts. The example I most cited was when my state's former senior senator Bill Roth (of ROTH IRA infamy-his monument is paper not granite) was running for re-election, and he opposed drilling in ANWR. He gave the bill's sponsor Ted Stevens (R-AK) a wink, because they both knew that the bill had enough votes to pass and "Roth The Republican" was just posturing as an anti gun, green Democrat to minimize all obstacles to re-election. It's the same reason that our "good friend Bill" who took NRA money for years stabbed us in the back and voted for the big gun grab when we needed him most. Just as BushCo did last time, Roth kissed all the babies, all the asses and all the babies' asses he could to remain "Senator For Life". When he was defeated I laffed my ass off! He was in shock! He paid Finklestein Assoc. (pollsters) a cool mil to tell him he was a shoe-in for re-election, but then he fell three times in front of the cameras (he was about 170 years old then I think) and was defeated by Tom Carper. His staff didn't want him to retire because they would lose their cushy power player gigs, so, don't ever forget that it's those people who keep incumbents alive and on life support, and only leaving the senate feet first. I've said many times that if they ever perfect that brain-in-a-jar technology that we saw in the old, B movie called "THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN!" no US Senator will ever retire again. The whole senate chamber will be filled with brain jars that bubble whenever a young page walks up or down the isles....
"'Schools is educationy' ; A message from our president."
We're in the same Chapter, if not exactly on the same page.
#13. To: christine, noone222, _________ (#12)
feuded with the city council in the past. i know lots of folks who have been tyrannized by these bureaucrats with private property being stolen from them and/or their businesses being destroyed
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#14. To: christine (#12)
i'm betting we're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing.
#15. To: christine (#12)
#16. To: IndieTX (#13)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
#17. To: Original_Intent (#9)
Which anti-depressant was he on?
#18. To: IndieTX (#13)
Take heed all ye fascist StateInc thugs. Your time is just about up. Prepare for the rope..or worse.
#19. To: _______ (#2)
(Edited)
With all the really evil sons of bitches that he could have wasted his life taking out, he goes local.
#20. To: noone222 (#19)
#21. To: Brian S (#0)
(Edited)
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
I just looked at the mayor and council, and they appear to be a bunch of Republicans.
#23. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
(Edited)
Whatever the grievance it couldn't possibly warrant this violence.
#24. To: Original_Intent (#9)
#25. To: Kamala (#24)
Almost everyone of these spree killers are on/were some type of psychotropic.
#26. To: _______ (#2)
#27. To: noone222 (#17)
(Edited)
#28. To: Brian S (#0)
#29. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
#30. To: Brian S (#0)
#31. To: YertleTurtle (#30)
#32. To: Brian S (#5)
The rest of the 'elected' ought take heed, indeed.
#33. To: _______ (#16)
violent revolution inevitable
#34. To: Sam Houston (#33)
schoolchildren in the city where he was murdered cheered
#35. To: noone222 (#23)
Do you think it's simply a matter of the local activities ? Are we to forget WACO and RUBY RIDGE ? Do government organs get a special waiver (immunity) from their deeds ? When it comes right down to it, WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS CATCHING UP TO DO !!!
#36. To: angle, Sam Houston, the thread (#34)
schoolchildren in the city where he was murdered cheered
Freedom*Peace*Prosperity
#37. To: historian1944 (#29)
(Edited)
Sec. 449;1. Cruelty to animals.
#38. To: lodwick (#36)
#39. To: HOUNDDAWG (#35)
I don't share the view that a city meter maid or building inspector be shot with a sniper rifle to even the score for what Lon Horiuchi did at Ruby Ridge.
Lord Acton
#40. To: angle (#31)
#41. To: angle (#38)
I must be living in a fukking bubble then.
Freedom*Peace*Prosperity
#42. To: _______, Brian S (#6)
Tyranny is generally felt locally, first.
#43. To: HOUNDDAWG (#35)
#44. To: HOUNDDAWG (#35)
I don't share the view that a city meter maid or building inspector be shot with a sniper rifle to even the score for what Lon Horiuchi did at Ruby Ridge.
#45. To: James Deffenbach (#39)
(Edited)
I don't share the view that a city meter maid or building inspector be shot with a sniper rifle to even the score for what Lon Horiuchi did at Ruby Ridge.
#46. To: noone222, christine, Jethro Tull (#43)
Here in Texas, the Austin area more specifically, the people have been protesting the introduction of toll roads and the Trans-Texas Corridor. They are politely protesting at every opportunity and in large numbers. Their protests are acknowledged by the politicos and brushed off.
#47. To: Axenolith (#44)
(Edited)
That's pretty sage wisdom there HD. For local boobs wallowing in power trips, there's plenty of petty BS of theirs that merely needs to be brought to light to get the locals to give them the boot
#48. To: HOUNDDAWG (#46)
#49. To: HOUNDDAWG (#45)
Lord Acton
#50. To: Jethro Tull (#48)
..if the dude was white he'd already have been labeled a radical-right militia member living in a double-wide trailer, bedecked with a confederate flag. So we lucked out in that respect.
#51. To: James Deffenbach (#49)
The government has gotten by with far too much. Gordon Kahl, Ruby Ridge, Waco, the disaster in New Orleans and the disaster that is Bush (and Clinton). This country is getting close to, if not already on, its last trip around the bowl.
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